# CVE-2026-55149: Vouch Proxy: Unbounded Multipart Cookie Allocation DoS

- Also known as: GO-2026-6260, GHSA-QQFF-5854-PX68
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.48.0
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-17

## Affected

- vouch vouch-proxy: fixed in 0.48.0
- github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy (Go): fixed in 0.48.0

## Description

Vouch Proxy is an SSO and OAuth/OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module. Prior to 0.48.0, Cookie in pkg/cookie/cookie.go parses the total part count from an attacker-controlled multipart cookie name and passes the value to make([]string, numParts) without checking that the value is positive or reasonably bounded. Requests to /validate and /_external-auth-:id reach JWTCacheHandler in pkg/jwtmanager/jwtcache.go, FindJWT in pkg/jwtmanager/jwtmanager.go, and the vulnerable cookie reassembly before JWT validation, so no account or valid session is required. A cookie name such as VouchCookie_1of10000000000 causes an attempted slice allocation of roughly 160 GB and a fatal Go runtime out-of-memory condition, allowing one request to crash the authentication proxy and repeated requests to sustain unavailability. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.48.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vouch vouch-proxy, github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy, upgrade to a fixed version (0.48.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-qqff-5854-px68
- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/commit/fa18ce30ba50a4863a436acad044c22965329c4f
- https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy/releases/tag/v0.48.0

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